Some of our favorites from the press coverage of Laura Castellanos’ acclaimed BODEGA (Love Materials) exhibition!
Crosscut | 6 Things to Do in Seattle
There’s something a little dangerous vibrating in the work of Seattle visual artist Laura Castellanos. Lines and patterns repeated to the point of double vision, electric color against black backgrounds, cartoony faces that might just be hypnotizing you the longer you look. She brings all her mysterious “brujita” powers to play in her newest show, Bodega (Love Materials), which takes viewers down her own memory lane and into a shop her Cuban grandparents owned in the 1960s. With paintings, hand puppets, voodoolike dolls and other art objects, she has transformed the gallery into something that resembles a combination art shop and paint-splashed, interactive studio — a showcase of the many ways she channels her startling vision. – Brangien Davis
The Stranger | The Best Art Shows in Seattle Winter 2018
There’s a sort of spiritual and spooky element to Castellanos’s work—it’s as if her paintbrush is divining some message from a god(dess) who is at once benevolent and strange, gaudy and all-seeing, lover of both bright green and blood sacrifice. Castellanos is turning ArtXchange into a giant interactive “bodega,” partially re-creating her truly legendary studio space inside the gallery, and will display everything from paintings to hand puppets to fine art. – Jasmyne Keimig